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From: miket@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Mike Trout)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: I'm pro Russian
Summary: don't hold your breath...
Keywords: Soviet, UUCP network
Message-ID: <5140@brspyr1.BRS.Com>
Date: 15 Dec 88 17:12:49 GMT
References: <192@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk> <2326@cbnews.ATT.COM> <7961@dasys1.UUCP> <115@gsgpyr.hac.com>
Organization: BRS Info Technologies, Latham NY
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In article <115@gsgpyr.hac.com>, jrich@devnet4.hac.com (john richardson) writes:

> In article <2355@cbnews.ATT.COM> lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM (Lawrence V. Cipriani) writes:
> > When the Soviet Union allows free immigration to all citizens then I will
> > believe they have *fundamentally* changed.  Until then, it is a prison,
> > and only a prison.

> A good criteria for recognizing a true change,
> as this would indeed require a fundamental change in Soviet attitudes.
> Congress, however, would probably respond by limiting Soviet emigration.

Oops.  This has already happened (reference: NPR story 12-13-88).  One official
was quoted as saying something like "now that the Soviet Union is opening its
doors, the United States is closing its doors."

Big surprise, eh?


 




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